On Jul 10, 7:16*pm, Barry wrote:
even david brooks is finding out how perverted the republicans
areavid Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner
thigh’ for a ‘whole’ dinner party:i wonder which family values
conservative that was?






http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/10/...senator-thigh/

David Brooks: A Republican senator put ‘his hand on my inner thigh’
for a ‘whole’ dinner party.
Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about
how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in
Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today, Brooks recalled
how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his
hand on my inner thigh the whole time”:
BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering
politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re
all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to
invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican
senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole
time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
HARWOOD: What?
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?
BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.
Brooks said that he has “spoken to a lot of young women who are Senate
staffers and they’ll have these middle age guys who are sort of in the
middle of a mid-life crisis. Emotionally needy, they don’t know how to
do it and sort of like these St. Bernards drooling everywhere.” Watch
it:



When O’Donnell asked if he had “a couple drinks at lunch,” Brooks said
that he was just “trying not to be too dignified and stuffy.”
Transcript:
O’DONNELL: What, what’s happened?

BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering
politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re
all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to
invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican
senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole
time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
HARWOOD: What?
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?
BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you. But so, a lot of
them spend so much time needing people’s love and yet they are
shooting upwards their whole life, they’re not that great in normal
human relationships. And so, they’re like freaks, they don’t know how
to, they’re lonely. They reach out. I’ve spoken to a lot of young
women who are Senate staffers and they’ll have these middle age guys
who are sort of in the middle of a mid-life crisis. Emotionally needy,
they don’t know how to do it and sort of like these St. Bernards
drooling everywhere. And you find a lot of this happens in mid-life
and among very powerful people who are extremely lonely.
O’DONNELL: Can I ask one other question David? Do you think, what
about female or women politicians? Are they dignified and are there
examples of when they have not? Or does it tend to be the men who less
dignified?
BROOKS: Yeah, I think that’s mostly a matter of genetics. I do think
that…I do think there’s loneliness.
O’DONNELL: That was just a softball, David, and you really hit it very
well.
BROOKS: Yeah, I wish I could think of sort of St. Bernards, sloppy
women who are licking their aides, but but no, I can’t think of any.
HARWOOD: I’m not going there.
O’DONNELL: Did you have a couple drinks at lunch, David? I mean, this
is clearly.
BROOKS: No, you’ve hit me…I’m trying not to be too dignified and
stuffy.
O’DONNELL: Well, David Brooks as always, thank you very much. That was
a lot of fun. You may not have gotten best column of the week, but you
got best appearance of the week, certainly.